The Reading Strategies Book
Your Everything Guide to Developing Skilled Readers
Editorial Review
Engaged readers are often motivated to read, strategic in their approaches to comprehending what they read, knowledgeable in their construction of meaning from text, and socially interactive while reading. Sometimes to help readers with the goal of engagement, you actually need to work on comprehension.
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By reading at an appropriate pace, with proper phrasing and with intonation, expression, and emphasis on the correct words, a reader both communicates that the text is making sense and makes sense of the reading.
When summarizing, remember to tell what’s important. Tell it in the order it happened. Tell it in a way that makes sense.
To summarize only the most important information, it’s helpful to stop and say, “What was this story really about?”
Each chapter will have at least one important event. At the end of the chapter, stop and jot about what the most important event is.
Pay attention to tenses. If the verbs switch from present to past tense, you know the time has changed.
You can figure out what a character is feeling or learn about the kind of person a character is by relying on what you know about people in real life.
Think about a point of conflict in the story. Notice if the character acts differently before and after the conflict.
When we want to figure out a theme in a story, we can stop and jot an important note about what’s happening in the plot, and then we can infer by asking ourselves, “What’s the big idea about what’s happening in this story?”
To determine a story’s theme, it helps to first name some topics¬—one-word issues, ideas, or concepts.
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